Pilot who died in Marin plane crash identified

Updated 8:25 am, Wednesday, August 27, 2014

(08-26) 16:18 PDT NOVATO -- The pilot who died in a small plane crash in a remote area near Novato was identified Tuesday as 51-year-old Robert John Madge of Redwood City.

Madge's body was found Aug. 19 in the wreckage of his single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza after firefighters extinguished a 40-acre brush fire off Hicks Valley Road west of Novato, authorities said. He was the only one on board.

The Marin County coroner's office identified Madge through dental records.

The plane had no previous record of problems, according to federal databases.